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"The crowd again started shouting “tax Elon,” “tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich” and “tax the billionaires.” " www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 14 hours ago • 42 comments

When taking actions late on a Friday night, a government sends a message its trying to pull one over on the public and the media, that it is hiding something or doing something it believes it should not do or will be seen as controversial. That is certainly true in this case.

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

I suspect we won’t be seeing many more town halls with elected Republicans.

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

Bullshit.

submitted 22 hours ago • 325 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 275 comments

There is a wave of anger building across the entire country. People are already becoming fed up with Trump and Musk. These algorithms can try to hide it all they want, but they won’t be able to avoid reality for long.

submitted 1 day ago • 350 comments

it's really saying something that this is how an apparent friend explains Elon's goals www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...

submitted 17 hours ago • 171 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 202 comments

Ukraine was warned it faced an imminent shutdown of Elon Musk’s vital Starlink satellite internet system unless it signed the extortion deal on rare earth minerals, Reuters reports.

submitted 15 hours ago • 228 comments

I’m shocked.

submitted 16 hours ago • 483 comments

the chinese have no interest in a meeting, trump is making this up www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/t...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 14 hours ago • 193 comments

BREAKING: the stock market. Make America great again!

submitted 18 hours ago • 99 comments

The anti-DOGE backlash is showing up in GOP reps districts talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/infle... via @TPM

submitted 18 hours ago • 62 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2176 comments

www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-purge...

submitted 18 hours ago • 55 comments

Never thought we'd see someone wrest away from J. Edgar Hoover the title of Biggest Asshole to Ever Lead the FBI, but looks like we did it!

submitted 19 hours ago • 89 comments

This letter is a remarkable combination of stupid and ominous.

submitted 16 hours ago • 37 comments

"your health care coverage for Elon’s tax cuts. That is the fundamental fulcrum on which the next two years of American history — and quite possibly many years into the future — will turn." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/infle...

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

lol once a cable news host, always a cable news host. leaning into something he actually has experience doing.

submitted 11 hours ago • 108 comments

So DOGE's 'wall of receipts' is riddled with errors, falsehoods and distortions. big shock. about what you'd expect from 6 tech bros dragged over from the strip club www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 13 hours ago • 33 comments

They want war crimes. I do not know why the media will not say this. They say they want war crimes. Heggy got his job because he supported war crimes on Fox News. They think it is good to hunt children for sport.

submitted 15 hours ago • 23 comments

Replacing all the JAGs seems…not good.

submitted 16 hours ago • 46 comments

It's hard to call out specific affronts. But: Nauseating for Trump, Musk, unqualified Hegseth to target GEN CQ Brown. —Fighter squad command, multiple cmnd posts; —130 hrs combat-fighter, 3000 flying hrs; —Multiple grad degrees; —AF chief of staff, Chmn JCS www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 15 hours ago • 30 comments

So the President has abruptly fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Charles Q. Brown Jr., and is replacing him with a retired three star general, Dan Caine. This portends a future grave crisis as the President attempts to restructure the military into one personally loyal to him.

submitted 16 hours ago • 132 comments

Another good battle study by John Spencer. His work is always worth reading and learning from. I know I do! @WarInstitute #Ukraine mwi.westpoint.edu/the-battle-o...

submitted 12 hours ago • 13 comments

Actual Q: Back in 2017, Susan Collins cast a vote that made a difference, saving Obamacare. Since then, has she ever cast a "concerned" vote that *made a difference? Eg she voted No on Patel, fully aware that her vote wouldn't matter. Any case since 2017 of her bucking MAGA when it counted?

submitted 12 hours ago • 27 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 14 hours ago • 288 comments

“Hegseth suggested that Brown, who is Black, may have risen to his position through racial preferences. ‘We'll never know,’ he wrote, in a classic just-asking-questions dodge. But Trump should know. He’s the president who nominated Brown to be Air Force Chief of Staff in 2020.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

submitted 14 hours ago • 83 comments

“Many workers say they live in a constant state of fear, unable to trust their colleagues, unable to speak freely, reflexively engaging in self-censorship even on matters they view as crucial to national security.” Fed gov used to be a great place to work, www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 11 hours ago • 46 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 261 comments

firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

submitted 15 hours ago • 233 comments

Beware Trump especially on Friday evenings, notorious slow news time to undertake mischief with minimal scrutiny www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 12 hours ago • 53 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 14 hours ago • 149 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 20 hours ago • 242 comments

Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

submitted 13 hours ago • 181 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 15 hours ago • 369 comments

Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

submitted 16 hours ago • 750 comments

"We are getting lots of calls about Musk and lots of calls thanking me for sticking up for Ukraine..." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 11 hours ago • 258 comments

www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 326 comments

Well that’s bizarre

submitted 10 hours ago • 54 comments

Very basic question: DOGE is made up a few dozen people most of whom aren't drawing salaries. What could $40 million be going toward? Could it be data storage outside government servers? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-co...

submitted 21 hours ago • 69 comments

This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

submitted 1 day ago • 260 comments

This is a good moment to thank the federalism gods. States choose their election technology, not the federal government. In blue states the read out will be GTFO Elon. And given how toxic he’s getting probably in a lot of red states too.

submitted 19 hours ago • 104 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 19 hours ago • 850 comments

Let me say this again: walk away. Stop attending their briefings and tell viewers and readers why. Explain how press accessibility is being curtailed. Stop playing their game.

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments